{"id":463532,"date":"2025-09-30T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463532\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:40:21","slug":"spains-carlos-alcaraz-joins-elite-group-of-players-to-win-eight-tennis-titles-in-a-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463532\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Carlos Alcaraz joins elite group of players to win eight tennis titles in a one season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPAIN\u2019S Carlos Alcaraz won his eighth title of the season after beating America\u2019s Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-4 in the ATP 500 Japan Open final in Tokyo on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victory was sweet revenge for the Spaniard\u2019s surprise defeat to Fritz at the Laver Cup team event in San Francisco this month- his first loss to the American in four meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one from El Palmar, Murcia, has now won seven of his last nine tournaments, and he reached the final of the two others, including Wimbledon, before losing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/carlos-and-taylor-490x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-438954\"  \/><strong>ALCARAZ &amp; FRITZ(Cordon Press image)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old also joined an elite set of players, namely Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray plus current rival Jannik Sinner as the only men to win eight titles in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always tough to play Taylor,\u201d said Alcaraz, who suffered an injury scare in his first match in Tokyo last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to my team. It\u2019s my first year coming to Tokyo and it feels like home!,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see how special this tournament is, so thanks to everyone for the support. The fans have been amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-438955 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/victory-moment-490x327.jpg\"  data-\/><strong>VICTORY CELEBRATION(Cordon Press image)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since losing against Jannik Sinner at Wimbledon in July, Alcaraz has won three successive titles \u2013 the Cincinnati Open, the US Open and now the Japan Open.<\/p>\n<p>It is the Murcian\u2019s 67th win of the season as he closes in further on Sinner\u2019s tally of 73 wins last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great, my best season so far without a doubt,\u201d said Alcaraz,<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/category\/sport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sport News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPAIN\u2019S Carlos Alcaraz won his eighth title of the season after beating America\u2019s Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-4 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[6359,2000,299,154985,23281,18104,8626,104,93,31643,1068,18106,7808],"class_list":["post-463532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-japan-open-title","tag-murcia","tag-news-spain","tag-newspaper","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-tennis","tag-the-olive-press","tag-tokyo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115294242652184933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}